Payment Methods

A payment method represents transactable payment information such as credit card details or a customer's authorization to charge a PayPal or Venmo account. Payment methods belong to a customer, are securely stored in the Braintree Vault, and have a PaymentMethodToken attribute that you can store on your servers with reduced PCI compliance burden and later use to create transactions.

Create

Use Payment Method: Create to create a payment method for an existing customer using a payment method single-object token received from the client :

var request = new PaymentMethodRequest
{
  CustomerId = "131866",
  PaymentMethodNonce = NonceFromTheClient
};
Result<PaymentMethod> result = gateway.PaymentMethod.Create(request);

Alternatively, you can create a new customer with a payment method using Customer: Create with the PaymentMethodNonce parameter.

After the payment method is successfully created, you can use Transaction: Sale with the PaymentMethodToken parameter to create a transaction.

note
Braintree strongly recommends verifying all cards before they are stored in your Vault by enabling card verification for your entire account in the Control Panel.

Update

Use Payment Method: Update to update an existing payment method.

Make default

Use the MakeDefault option to set a payment method as the default for its customer:

var updateRequest = new PaymentMethodRequest
{
    Options = new PaymentMethodOptionsRequest
    {
        MakeDefault = true
    }
};

Result<PaymentMethod> result = gateway.PaymentMethod.Update("the_token", updateRequest);

Billing address

Update the billing address:

var updateRequest = new PaymentMethodRequest
{
    BillingAddress = new PaymentMethodAddressRequest
    {
        StreetAddress = "100 Maple Lane",
        Options = new PaymentMethodAddressOptionsRequest
        {
            UpdateExisting = true
        }
    }
};

Result<PaymentMethod> result = gateway.PaymentMethod.Update("the_token", updateRequest);

You can also omit the UpdateExisting option to create a new billing address for the payment method.

See the reference and more examples of updating a payment method . If you want to update both payment method and customer information together, use Customer: Update.

Find

Use Payment Method: Find to find a payment method:

PaymentMethod paymentMethod = gateway.PaymentMethod.Find("token");

The return value of the Payment Method: Find call will be a PaymentMethod response object.

Delete

Use Payment Method: Delete to delete a payment method:

var result = gateway.PaymentMethod.Delete("the_token");

result.IsSuccess();
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